Tales from the American Frontier

It Ain't Necessarily So Foreword CHAPTER 1 ⬩ OHIO FEVER. The Devil and Major Stobo The Cheater Cheated The Wild Hunt Dreams The Skeleton Hand The Wild Hunter of the Juniata The Consequences of Not Letting a Man Have His Drink The Laughing Head CHAPTER 2 ⬩ THE LONG HUNTERS Tarzan Boone Swallowing a Scalping Knife That's John's Gun! A Clever Runner A Damn Good Jump The Warrior Woman The Corcondyle Head CHAPTER 3 ⬩ BACKWOODSMEN The Irrepressible Backwoodsman and Original Humorist Grinning the Bark off a Tree Davy Crockett on the Stump The Drinks Are on Me, Gentlemen Gouging the Critter Jim Bowie and His Big Knife Won't You Light, Stranger? Ohio Poem CHAPTER 4 ⬩ RING-TAILED ROARERS OF THE WESTERN WATERS A Shooting Match Did Such a Helliferocious Man Ever Live? Like Father, Like Daughter She Fought Her Weight in She-B'ars He Crowed and Flapped His Wings A Fight Between Keelboatmen Averted Stranger, Is This a Free Fight? The Screaming Head Stopping Drinking for Good CHAPTER 5 ⬩ MOUNTAIN MEN Little Big Man Kit Carson and the Grizzlies Run for Your Life, White Man! Old Solitaire Pegleg Smith and Headless Harry Mind the Time We Took Pawnee Topknots? Lover Boy of the Prairies Putrefactions The Injin Killed Me Dead Heaven According to Old Gabe Damn Good Shootin' Uncle Joe the Humorist Ba'tiste's Nightmare Song of the Voyageur CHAPTER 6 ⬩ TIMBER! Paul Bunyan and His Little Blue Ox Paul Bunyan Helps to Build a Railroad Kidnapped by a Flea Thunder Bay CHAPTER 7 ⬩ GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! Tommy-Knockers It Had a Light Where It's Heart Ought to Have Been He Ate All the Democrats of Hinsdale County A Golden-Haired Fellow Treasures of Various Kinds The Missing Chest CHAPTER 8 ⬩ GIT ALONG, LITTLE DOGIES The Saga of Pecos Bill The Taming of Pecos Bill's Gal Sue Coyote Makes a Texas Cowboy The Heart-Shaped Mark The Skeleton Bride Western Jack and the Cornstalk Better Move That Drat Thing! Being Afood in Roswell Outstunk the Skunk CHAPTER 9 ⬩ THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON No-Head Joaquin and Three-Fingered Jack The Headless Horseman of the Mother Lode El Keed El Chivato He Rose from the Grave A Whale of a Fellow with a Gun The King of the Pistoleers A Western Duel The Nuptials of Dangerous Davis Killing Off the James Boys Theme and Variations The Winchester Ghosts CHAPTER 10 ⬩ BUCKING THE TIGER A Hard Head Indians Can Play Poker Jim Bowie Takes a Hand The Curly-Headed Little Boy Shall We Have a Drop? Colonel Tubbs Strikes It Rich Good for Our Entire Assets The One-Eyed Gambler CHAPTER 11 ⬩ LADY WILDCATS OF THE PLAINS Born Before Her Time How Old Calam Got Her Name Calamity Jane Meets a Long-Lost Lover CHAPTER 12 ⬩ THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS Deadwood Dick Deadwood Dick and the Grizzly Deadwood Dick to the Rescue CHAPTER 13 ⬩ AN' THAT'S MY ROOLIN'. The Law West of the Pecos Ah Ling's Hommyside Fining the Deceased The Hanging of Carlos Robles Roy Bean's Pet Bear Judge Barker, Old Zim, and the One-Eyed Mule El Cuatro de Julio A Drink's Worth of Punishment CHAPTER 14 ⬩ SKY PILOTS Preachin' One Can Understand The Parable of the Prodigal Son Lissen to the Heavenly Poker Player! Hear What the Great Herd Book Says! A Funeral Oration A Black Hills Sermon CHAPTER 15 ⬩ CRITTERS The Valley of Headless Men A Loup-Garou, or a Windigo, or Maybe a Carcajou The Call of the Wild The Windigo The Great White Stallion of the West Until Judgment Day El Diablo Negro Snake Yarns A Rolling Snake Gathers No Moss The White Snakes A Pair of Fine Boots The Young Man Who Wanted to Be Snakebit The Peg-Leg Cat CHAPTER 16 ⬩ MOSTLY LIES Somebody in My Bed The Weather It Gets Mighty Cold Around Here Texican Liars CHAPTER 17 ⬩ MIRACLES, SAINTS, AND WITCHES The Three Lost Daughters The Two Witches The Owl Witch San Isidro and the Angel A Riddle The Many-Times-Killed Young Man The Caveman of the Hermit Peaks The Miracles of Chimayo The Miraculous Staircase The Hitchhiker Source Notes Bibliography